Im still curious as to exactly how its broken. I just tried some simple thread code using detach() and got no core dumps.

Can you cut the code down to something that shows that its actually 'detach' thats breaking it, and why? (just removing/adding it might have some other effects).

Maybe you could also find out where memory is leaking.. One of the nice things I noticed after upgrading to 5.8.2 was that my script (the im2 script, actually) stopped leaking memory.. in 5.8.0 and 5.8.1 it was getting to around 150mb before leveling off, now in 5.8.2 it can run for days at a time and only peak around 25mb.

Without trying to find where the bugs are exactly, I doubt you will get much response from p5p, since they probably dont want to dig through your code, and wont get much out of a 'detach produces core dumps' error..

C. still struggling to figure out if blessed objects 'work' .. currently they seem to be working, darn it..

In reply to Re: Perl 5.8.2 thread is worse - more findings from today by castaway
in thread Perl 5.8.2 thread is worse - more findings from today by pg

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